A cute thing going around the Internet these days is Elf Yourself, a site where you can upload a picture of your face and then see yourself doing a silly dance dressed as an elf. It's fun and silly.

When you go to the site and click the "Start the Elfamorphosis" button and choose to upload your own photo, you're first presented with this page:

Blah blah blah, yeah, whatever, click ACCEPT and move along.

If you actually glanced at the text shown before clicking ACCEPT, you'd see that you can't post porn and you have to have the right [...]

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I've had a cold (and still do... ugh!), which is why I'm not writing much, but something just happened that makes me really wonder why people can't keep their word.

I ordered a new computer two weeks ago, and Dell said that I'd get it to me near Christmas, but it actually arrived a week ago (and is wonderful and zippy).

And now, two minutes ago, a deliveryman shows up with my camera, back from service at Nikon. Nikon had promised it on Dec 23rd, but here I am with it three days early.

I'm so glad [...]
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This morning, Anthony's preschool had a Christmas service, which included the kids (aged 3-6) putting on a "pageant" depicting the Christmas story. The older kindergarten-aged kids did a lot of speaking roles and other complex things, while the younger kids like Anthony had less challenging tasks.

Anthony was the star. Or, at least, a star, lighting the way for the three kings. He wore a star hat, and made "twinkling movements" with his fingers above his head. If you use your imagination, you can see Anthony on the far right in the picture above. (A crop taken from [...]

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Last week I showed four-year-old Anthony with a messy face, and received comments like "that's not a messy face," with commenters recklessly comparing my well-behaved four-year-old with their snotty-nosed incorrigibles as infants.

Well, I used to have one of those, too 🙂

11-Month-Old Anthony in Various Stages of Un-Eat

Notice the rice in his nose in the left-hand picture.

Anyway, here's a followup to the messy face post. When asked to smile for the camera, Anthony tries, but it's a very fake, plastic smile. So while taking pictures of his messy face, I did various things to try to [...]

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